Birchtree-HR links business strategy with HR programs to increase revenue reduce costs and improve operating efficiency for success driven domestic and international companies. Would you like to know how to improve your financial performance using human resources programs? Would you like to know what an independent HR consulting firm can do for your bottom line? Click on one of the links below and we’ll show you what we do.

Consulting

It is not a “one size fits all” world and clients expect an investment in HR consulting services to produce an improvement in financial performance. Birchtree provides independent HR consulting services that give our clients a competitive advantage. We build our consulting solutions around a template model that uses client business strategy and objectives as the focus not a pre-designed product.

Survey’s, studies, financial performance and our research show companies that specifically link their HR activities to their business strategy increase their financial performance by up to 40%.

Consider how financial results would improve if a call center could keep turnover between 10-15%. Or, how efficient your firm would be if all your employees were trained in the latest technology-at no cost to you; and, what effect improving productivity by 10% would have on your bottom line. Would your firm be more competitive?

The answer is yes. Some of our most effective services that help clients are listed below.

Birchtree HR provides HR consulting services in the following areas for US and global based clients.

	HR Strategic Plans		Compensation
	Balanced Scorecard Based Strategic Plans		Sales Compensation
	Global HR Start Up Infrastructure		Executive Compensation
	Expatriate Program Design		Interview Training
	Expatriate Tax and Legal Assistance		Benefit Program Design
	Training and Development		Statutory/Non Statutory
	MBTI Team and Sales Programs		401K, Pension Plans
	Immigration Assistance		Executive Wealth Building
	Team Building		Insurance
	Training Incentive Recapture Programs *See this month's Birchtree Quarterly for featured article		Performance Management *See this month's Birchtree Quarterly for featured article
	Customized Simulations

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SSSHR^©

What is SSSHR^©?

SSSHR^© is a systematic process of reviewing business strategy and focusing on imbedding value-added HR practices into operating activities.

By focusing on strategic business goals, organizational structure, business processes and activities, rather than focusing on compliance, another firm's best practices, or symptom management, SSSHR^© helps businesses create unique HR practices and procedures that increase revenues, reduce costs and improve operating efficiency.

What can you do to increase your return on total capital? You can leverage your HR assets.

“In these harshly competitive times, no firm can firm afford to operate without leveraging all of its human resource capabilities or, for that matter, to let its HR department work without the strategic advice and support they need. Using the SSSHR^© program we identified $750,000 in savings/revenue and efficiencies in our $32 Million business.”
-Carl Nablo, CEO Desert Plastics, SSSHR^© Customer

SSSHR^© Program Overview

There are three ways SSSHR^© can be applied to your organization. Which program level you select and what level of Consultant support depends on what your business would like to accomplish.

Level 1: Performance & Diagnostic Review

The SSSHR^© Performance & Diagnostic Review is perfect for Companies that need to diagnose and improve a specific process or HR activity. It is a way of increasing the effectiveness of one process, for example, realigning compensation systems to current business strategy, or creating a performance management system that increases employee contributions.

Level 2: Grouped HR Process Solutions

Level Two, Grouped HR Process Solutions are designed to review more than one program such as compensation and performance management, compensation and benefits, or staffing and training. The focus is on in creasing organizational performance through improving the effectiveness of several HR systems. Effectiveness is improved by linking processes more closely to strategic business objectives and by cross functional linkages to related programs so the entire process works in synergy.

Level 3: Comprehensive HR Process Solutions

For businesses that want a full review of all HR processes and comprehensive solutions designed and implemented to improve links to business strategy and related functions, and identify metric measurements to increase overall organizational effectiveness and improve bottom line performance. This is a comprehensive HR strategic audit, resulting in HR programs specifically tailored to company business plans and future needs.

What Makes SSSHR^© Unique?

The Diagnostic Methodology and Customized Tools: SSSHR^©'s unique methodology incorporates custom developed diagnostic tools, templates and a business process that aligns business strategy, operational and organizational structure to HR activities giving a competitive advantage in today's hyper-competitive markets.

Built Around Your Company: Our diagnostic business process is defined by your business objectives. It provides a customized approach to identifying symptoms then looks deeper to discover the root cause problems blocking organizational and operational effectiveness. Once identified, the program guides your business team through the process of identifying solutions based on the company's strategic objectives.

Experience and Expertise: What sets the SSSHR^© team apart is the depth and breadth of their consulting experience, their professional knowledge, and their leadership in the HR community. Recognized as global HR experts with on-the-ground experience in over 50 countries, they have faced an unusual set of workforce challenges along with business models and cultural issues not normally acquired.

Impartiality: We develop metrics and best practices around your business. This ensures the uniqueness of your company's value proposition.

Creation of Client Specific Solutions and Best Practices: We go beyond simply offering advice by designing, developing and implementing efficient processes and best practices. We work with your staff to ensure solutions are effectively embedded into the organization's culture and translated into results supportive of the company's business goals and operational performance.

Future Focused: We focus on what your business will be doing in the next one, two and five years and help you craft supportive HR processes and programs that helps you outperform your competitors and engages your operating managers.

Business Focused Diagnostic: SSSHR^© focuses on the delivery of your business proposition to your customer and how HR can best support that process. SSSHR^© has been designed with operating managers and front line workers in mind. We are business strategists with expertise in HR, not HR bureaucrats

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Industry Measures

Manufacturing, services, technology or financial organizations all have different financial metrics and measures. However, the following data points and metrics comprise some of the SSSHR^© template material.

	SWOT Analysis		Industry Attractiveness
	Five Forces Analysis		Strategic Group Mapping
	Balanced Scorecard Review		Competitive Market Position
	Industry Competitive Forces		Review of Competitive Strategy

Organizational Performance Measures

	Return on Total Capital		Ratio Analysis
	Business Strategy Review		Bench Strength
	Return on Invested Capital		Supply Chain Effectiveness
	Inventory Turn		Overhead Costs
	Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction Measurement

Human Resource Programs Reviewed

	HR Strategic Plan		Contract Management
	Compensation		Compliance
	Benefits		Mandatory Reporting
	Staffing		HR Metrics
	HRIS		Employee Relations
	Performance Management		Customer Service
	Unionized Workforce		Outsourced Services

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The Global 20^©

The "Global 20^©” is a template guide to help executives deliver a positive return on shareholder value by linking corporate business strategy with human resources activities in a global environment. The “Global 20^©” consists of twenty key areas and issues that impact organizational expansion in the global market. These key areas must be considered as HR functions change from purely domestic to multi-country or global.

	Key Personal Qualities		Expatriate Management
	Communication		Compensation
	Strategic Business Orientation		Statutory and Non Statutory Benefits
	Global HR Understanding		Performance Management
	Template Based Country Overview		Training and Development
	Cultural Implications		Tax Consideration
	Business Incorporation		Legal/Ethical/Labor Law Compliance
	Labor Relations		Technological Issues
	Staffing Challenges		HRIS Systems
	Immigration/Naturalization/TCN		Safety and Environmental Concerns

The “Global 20^©” is offered as a one day educational seminar with management teams or as a strategic audit.

Are you headed to any of these locations? Want to make sure your HR activities in these markets give you a competitive advantage? Want to avoid the costly mistakes that come from not having experience on your side? Then talk to us about our Global 20^© training programs for operating managers and HR professionals. Used by leading MBA programs, professional associations, and businesses the Global 20^© can give your business the knowledge needed to be successful in reaching new customers in foreign markets.

The "Global 20^©” is a template guide to help executives deliver a positive return on shareholder value by linking corporate business strategy with human resources activities in a global environment. The “Global 20^©” consists of twenty key areas and issues that impact organizations expansion in the global market. These key areas must be considered as HR functions move from purely domestic to multi-contry or global.

	Key Personal Qualities		Expatriate Management
	Communication		Compensation
	Strategic Business Orientation		Statutory Benefits
	Global HR Understanding		Non-Statutory Benefits
	Template Based Country Overview		Performance Management
	Cultural Implications		Training and Development
	Business Incorporation		Tax Consideration
	Labor Relations		Technological Issues
	Staffing Challenges		Safety and Environmental Concerns
	Immigration/Naturalization/TCN		Legal/Ethical/Labor Law Compliance Considerations

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